What's going on in your shop? Show us whats going on, and talk a bit about your work!

I like the deer hoof print on the tang. What's the plan for that one? Gonna wrap it or do you have something else in mind?
 
FullyTorque said:
I like the deer hoof print on the tang. What's the plan for that one? Gonna wrap it or do you have something else in mind?
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That is one I messed up the grind on and had to shorten it and do some tweaking, so I decided to play around with it and put the der hoof in it. I'm thinking about leaving it with just the exposed tang and cerakoting it black or hunter orange. A friend of mine does a little bit and thought I would give it a shot. Make it like a light weight EDC.
 
Just finished up these blades for a man in Sweden...
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Been working on a 9" Gyuto. It's my first time working with Damascus... I forged it myself in a class up at Ric Furrer's shop last month, taught by him and Steve Schwarzer. It's the second piece I made while there (and second piece ever), 720 layers of 1095 and 15n20. It was intended to be a ladder pattern, but I'm not so sure I'd still call it that. I like it regardless.

Spent the last three afternoons hand sanding it up to 2500 grit and gave it a light etch. Now, to figure out how to make a Wa handle...

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... and here's my first piece. Still not sure what I'm going to do with it yet...

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Unfortunately, my time up there was cut short by the death of my Grandfather, but I still had an awesome time and learned an incredible amount. Ric and Steve are both marvelous people, and I feel like I learned more in 3 1/2 days than I would have in a couple of years continuing to fumble around on my own. Also, I added another couple dozen tools to my wishlist... but that's another story :P
 
My new variable speed (Nathan) disc 1.5 hp. Adjustable rest with a G10 surface. Runs on the same KBAC as my Bader and is set up to switch to horizontal. Jess
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weebus said:
Been working on a 9" Gyuto. It's my first time working with Damascus... I forged it myself in a class up at Ric Furrer's shop last month, taught by him and Steve Schwarzer. It's the second piece I made while there (and second piece ever), 720 layers of 1095 and 15n20. It was intended to be a ladder pattern, but I'm not so sure I'd still call it that. I like it regardless.

Spent the last three afternoons hand sanding it up to 2500 grit and gave it a light etch. Now, to figure out how to make a Wa handle...

7iP6m3dh.jpg


... and here's my first piece. Still not sure what I'm going to do with it yet...

aBPuoLth.jpg


Unfortunately, my time up there was cut short by the death of my Grandfather, but I still had an awesome time and learned an incredible amount. Ric and Steve are both marvelous people, and I feel like I learned more in 3 1/2 days than I would have in a couple of years continuing to fumble around on my own. Also, I added another couple dozen tools to my wishlist... but that's another story :P
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I would make a knife out of it :D
 
WOW!!! Looking at the pics throughout the thread, I'm almost embarrassed to post mine. Working on my 2nd and 3rd knife ever. I'm really a mod guy and a kydex bender, but you how this world is that we love with all this sharpened steel around. It's inevitable that most of us end up making knives. I'm guilty.
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Hale Storm said:
WOW!!! Looking at the pics throughout the thread, I'm almost embarrassed to post mine. Working on my 2nd and 3rd knife ever. I'm really a mod guy and a kydex bender, but you how this world is that we love with all this sharpened steel around. It's inevitable that most of us end up making knives. I'm guilty.
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Don't be embarrassed, this thread is for EVERYONE! Its not about the quality, or skill level, its about sharing our passion for knifemaking. We all start somewhere, and we all (well almost all of us) worry about our flaws. Nice start, and smart project.
 
weebus said:
Been working on a 9" Gyuto. It's my first time working with Damascus... I forged it myself in a class up at Ric Furrer's shop last month, taught by him and Steve Schwarzer. It's the second piece I made while there (and second piece ever), 720 layers of 1095 and 15n20. It was intended to be a ladder pattern, but I'm not so sure I'd still call it that. I like it regardless.

Spent the last three afternoons hand sanding it up to 2500 grit and gave it a light etch. Now, to figure out how to make a Wa handle...

7iP6m3dh.jpg


... and here's my first piece. Still not sure what I'm going to do with it yet...

aBPuoLth.jpg


Unfortunately, my time up there was cut short by the death of my Grandfather, but I still had an awesome time and learned an incredible amount. Ric and Steve are both marvelous people, and I feel like I learned more in 3 1/2 days than I would have in a couple of years continuing to fumble around on my own. Also, I added another couple dozen tools to my wishlist... but that's another story :P
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Looks nice, regardless of what you call it.

I am finding that drill press to be very useful.
 
@bronyblacksmith : that's a pretty neat pattern on the top one!


Today we are finishing up HT on a batch of our Trillium paring knives and milling a bunch more. We are preparing for a culinary show we are attending here in Vancouver at the end of the month!

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I haven't posted in this thread in a whi. My camera died, and the cell phone pics are terrible. I thought I would post what I am working on anyway. I found my wife's camera, and am charging the battery on it. It is an older DSLR, so new pics when I have time to figure out how to work the camera. None of these are quite finished, but a few are down to the last details.

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This is a sheath I recently finished for my first client. He loved it. The knife is a production piece he bought, but he did not care for the sheath that came with it.

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Thanks Doc :)

This one should have come before the last one, but it wasn't ready to publish until tonight.

[video=youtube;ysiwX47h2MU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysiwX47h2MU[/video]
 
There's always some -knife making keyboard warrior- that comes along after I post videos where I'm grinding off a tool rest, that feels the need to point out how REAL knife makers grind free hand.

I always reply that I ground free hand for many years BEFORE learning how to grind off the tool rest similar to how Tim Hancock does. So I can grind freehand, but I choose to use the tool rest. The tool rest combined with a push stick is a very efficient way to grind, with very little wasted movement/effort.

BUT--- just to get those keyboard commandos to shut up, and prove that I'm not an "imitation knife maker" ;) I shot this video grinding one of the JoeP blades freehand with no lay-out lines, just hands and eyes.

The end result is a blade that looks just like the ones ground off the tool rest, but it was a much less efficient process to get it there. So how is that better? :confused: ;) LOL

[video=youtube;-6HOn5dVQqI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOn5dVQqI[/video]
 
NickWheeler said:
There's always some -knife making keyboard warrior- that comes along after I post videos where I'm grinding off a tool rest, that feels the need to point out how REAL knife makers grind free hand.

I always reply...
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You are better than me Nick, I would treat this as background noise and just ignore it.:grumpy:
But of course if it means we see more videos of how you make knives, I am all for it. ;)
 
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